Counsellors at Crisis Pregnancy Centres (CPCs) are recorded telling an
undercover reporter from the Telegraph that an abortion could increase their
risk of developing breast cancer

9:00PM GMT 10 Feb 2014

Women are being wrongly told that an abortion could increase their risk of developing breast cancer during counselling sessions at independent advisory clincs, The Telegraph can disclose.

Last month, Telegraph reporters approached a centre in Luton, named the Alma Pregnancy Advisory Service (APAS), claiming to be considering an abortion.

The counsellor, named Moira, told the reporter, “there’s also a link with breast cancer”.

An undercover reporter also visited a CPC in London where she was told that there was “an increased statistical likelihood of child abuse” because women had to break “natural barriers that surround the child that you don’t cross” in order to terminate a pregnancy.

The same adviser also said that women who had terminations were 25 percent less likely to be able to carry a pregnancy to full term.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said there was “absolutely no evidence” that women were more likely to develop breast cancer or abuse children after having an abortion. It also described the suggestion that they were less likely to be able to carry a pregnancy to full term as “absolutely wrong”.